So yesturday I'm reading threads here on UHall as I do pretty much every day, and I come across a thread titled "Coronation Schedules" which sounds really interesting. So I open it and the first thing I see is the poster's quite insulting comment at the top -

which both got my attention and annoyed me at the same time by making the assumption that if I didn't already know about this "Coronation" then I was somehow "lazy".

Please believe me when I say that this post (the one you're reading, not the one referred to above) is NOT meant to insult anyone or breed dissention here. My intent is to begin/continue discussion about how all of us (on ALL shards) get information about events that take place in Sosaria. OK?

Now, back to the "Coronation Schedules" thread. The first thing I did was scroll down the list to Pacific and see "Not announced yet" (yes, Pacific is my shard - has been since '98). But I click on the Pacific link anyway and see that it takes me to some place called uoem.net and I say to myself "Who the h*ll is uoem.net and why should I - A know about this place - or B ever had occasion to go there?" I mean, after all - the poster has referred to me as "damned lazy" because I hadn't gone there to get my news about events on Pacific. I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that if there was news about an in game event on Pacific, that I would see it posted someplace like - oh let me think - the Stratics UO Pacific or the Pacific EM Forum (but what would I know).... I know about Stratics.com and UOForums.com and (finally once again) UO.com, but (my bad) I am completely new to this uoem.net site! Anyway, only a few shards are represented at the uoem.net site, and I'm only mentioning it because it was where the poster said I should have seen the Coronation notice. So let's move on...

So where SHOULD we go every day to see what's happening "in game" ?

I understand that each shard has EM's that are all UNPAID volunteers and that some are much more "involved" than others, and I appreciate all the work that everyone at Stratics does to provide a place where communication can take place between the player base and the Dev's and EM's. I am NOT here to complain - but rather to illustrate how " in game " information tends to "get lost" from time to time, and to see what (if anything) we can ALL do to make things better....

In the end it's up to EA/Mythic to communicate with their CUSTOMERS and Stratics does the best it can to RELAY as much info as possible - BUT - I believe that, in the end, if EA really wants to head-off the continued erosion of the UO player base, then they need to seriously consider what would be BY FAR THE BEST WAY to communicate events - and that would be by introducing some sort of Community Bulletin Board ( in game on each shard ) that we all could recall or walk to every day to see what's happening.

Oh, and please don't tell me about our in game "chat" as a source.... I don't know about the rest of you but I have chat always OFF simply because of all the "kiddy chat" and "spamming" that goes on there. I find it nothing more than distracting at best...

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I don't know about your shard, but on Europa any town crier could give you the information. There are rather more of them than a 'community bulletin board' you just walk up to one and say 'news' or even just hang around near one for a few minutes.

I don't know about your shard, but on Europa any town crier could give you the information. There are rather more of them than a 'community bulletin board' you just walk up to one and say 'news' or even just hang around near one for a few minutes.

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I have done that many times and the result has been no news or old news.... Or - in the case of my shard - an email link? Please.....

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Yes, especiyll this ONE TIME EVENT, the Coronation of a NEW KING should have been held as a global event on all shards and been posted on UO.com

What i was reading today, Frarc also stated it on his post concerning Drachenfels, were the Event has to be postponed, Mesanna is ill...so there might be some coordination problems acutally - maybe shes not the only one ill - could be some of the staff catched the flu...

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First off Startle, I did not think you were lazy, just incredibly impatient since Pacific hadnt even announced anything yet. (So your attempts to find something that had not been announced yet were a little amusing)

Now onto your topic:
Fan site vs Site that is ran by the EM's themselves

If you have an issue with Pacific's forum, than perhaps you should volunteer to be a shard reporter so you can post it yourself each time. In the meantime, feel free to bookmark the website your shard's EMs run to post event schedules. Here, I even took a screenshot for you (Notice it is not yet updated with coronation information)

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No offense Promathia, but the new towncrier message must have been setted up around 15 mins ago...i am logged in on Pacific at Luna Mint and the town criers must have just changed..maybe because startle and me mailed our EM's (or we spamed them) hehe

Its even earlier now than i thought it will be, this means Friday 4 am for me arglll LOL

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No offense Promathia, but the new towncrier message must have been setted up around 15 mins ago...i am logged in on Pacific at Luna Mint and the town criers must have just changed..maybe because startle and me mailed our EM's (or we spamed them) hehe

Its even earlier now than i thought it will be, this means Friday 4 am for me arglll LOL

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I have a Sherrie the mouse statue at the top of the stairs going into my house. It normally tells me of events from a couple weeks or more in the past when it does announce something. This morning it was announcing an event from September. I don't run across many town criers during play.

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I understand it was updated recently, but trust me, its ALWAYS updated with event information. So is the website.

It is why I am able to attend every event on Pacific, as I dont have time to log into each shard, I simply check the EM's website.

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Promathia, i monitor everything concerning Pacific so i know the pages...but its not the thing...and i can tell you, compared to other shards, Pacific acutally has problems with on time communications - i know why and its not that someone is lazy...we recently had changes and a new EM on board and i know this takes some time...

Anyway, txs alot for your great summary of all shards coronation times - its VERY VERY helpful!!!

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First off Startle, I did not think you were lazy, just incredibly impatient since Pacific hadnt even announced anything yet. (So your attempts to find something that had not been announced yet were a little amusing)

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So you are saying we shouldn't look for information until the information has been announced. If we know when the information is announed wouldn't we know the information?

There is no news at this time on LS. I guess I should patiently wait until I read here on the official forums that the event has past. I stand by my reply on your duplicate thread. Glad we can amuse you.

I personally have had the problem that most of my shard's events shifted from Saturday, to Sunday evening between 5 & 9 pm Eastern - an I'm typically somewhere else EVERY Sunday from 4 pm until 10 pm.

The coronation was apparently scheduled for around 6 pm yesterday. No clue if it occurred or not.

Commemorative Events such as that should have the the item dispenser stay up at least as long as the time period for the moons aligning (40 hours) to cover the fact that man people realistically just CAN'T be there for the big day.

First off Startle, I did not think you were lazy, just incredibly impatient since Pacific hadnt even announced anything yet. (So your attempts to find something that had not been announced yet were a little amusing)

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Dewd ! It was your post that said we were all lazy if we didn't already know WHERE we SHOULD be looking for event "news". My point was that myself and others were NOT aware that we should be going to some site we had never heard of, mainly UOEM.net....

It's not so much that pacific.uoem.net had nothing regarding the Coronation event, it's about WHY you assume that I or anybody else should even KNOW of the existance of UOEM.net ! And why should we? We have shard event forums RIGHT HERE ON STRATICS for pete's sake...

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Dewd ! It was your post that said we were all lazy if we didn't already know WHERE we SHOULD be looking for event "news". My point was that myself and others were NOT aware that we should be going to some site we had never heard of, mainly UOEM.net....

It's not so much that pacific.uoem.net had nothing regarding the Coronation event, it's about WHY you assume that I or anybody else should even KNOW of the existance of UOEM.net ! And why should we? We have shard event forums RIGHT HERE ON STRATICS for pete's sake...

Sheesh............

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Each shard has a uoem site since pretty much the program restarted. Since then some sites have gone unused, and others have changed....But its not an "unknown" website.

You misunderstand me. ALL EMs/Events/ect should use 1 official channel for all shards, all events. The current way it is handled is quite sad.

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^^^^^ THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU ! Exactly what I am trying to get across here... UOEM.net? I think NOT! What's the point of having UO Events and UO (put shard here) Events RIGHT HERE ON STRATICS, if we're supposed to know about and GO TO some other URL for news?

In the interest of fairness for everyone these events should be posted to uo.com then to the EM sites and the Fansites can pick it up from there. The Events should also be in the start up screen as well.

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There should be 1 official channel for EM events. Not having to check 3, 4 or 5 different places to find out what is going on.

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THIS! Let's see, I can go to the Stratics EM boards, my shard boards, the UO EM webpage, twitter, & ingame criers who may or may not broadcast the most current event. Thankfully Mesanna realizes the communication needs to be streamlined.

On one of the shards I play, the Coronation has been announced as "See for Yourself" and the meeting location is the Brit Counselor hall. How would anyone who is not a regular Stratics reader know this is Blackthorn's coronation?

Those of us who play on shards where EM information is all but NON EXISTANT need a place to get CURRENT information in a timely manner. And, for me, this includes Stratics, UOForums and UO.com - and NOT some unkept foreign place like UOEM.net which, as Nu'Sair said, is not even sanctioned by UO.

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lol...Every EM on every shard has a website they can use. Whether or not they are used anymore is a moot point.

This is really such a nonissue. Each shard has a way of notifying their server and when an event is. Then you have the backup sources.

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You are right, it's not that hard. You shouldn't have to be in the know to know which channel a shard uses to notify about their events (even the shard wide events like Blackthorn went under the radar). It should be one channel, all EMs, all shards, all events. It is not that hard.

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Those of us who play on shards where EM information is all but NON EXISTANT need a place to get CURRENT information in a timely manner. And, for me, this includes Stratics, UOForums and UO.com - and NOT some unkept foreign place like UOEM.net which, as Nu'Sair said, is not even sanctioned by UO.

Those of us who play on shards where EM information is all but NON EXISTANT need a place to get CURRENT information in a timely manner. And, for me, this includes Stratics, UOForums and UO.com - and NOTsome unkept foreign place like UOEM.net which, as Nu'Sair said, is not even sanctioned by UO.

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